Why does the Japanese Companies Act require shareholders' approval when issuing shares in "beneficial price"?
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18K01360
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 05060:Civil law-related
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | 新株発行 / 有利発行 / 利益相反 / 会社法 / 不公正発行 / 第三者割当 / 新株予約権 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Japanese Companies Act requires a shareholder meeting resolution for issuing shares at a significantly low price. Commentators have cast doubts on the rule. However, it has functioned as a safeguard against defensive tactics that involve issuing shares or warrants at low prices. More generally, a recent view understands the rule as mitigation of the conflict of interest in share issuance. This project has shown that the recent view should be supported.
Furthermore, the rule substantially requires a board to follow careful procedures for deciding the share price, especially when the board intends to issue shares to a particular person. Since directors' duties in share issuance are not clear enough, providing a special rule for this particular situation might well be reasonable.
From the above viewpoint, disclosure of the process of deciding an issuing price is crucially important. However, both corporate law and securities law have partly failed in this aspect.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
存在意義が疑われてきた有利発行規制について、他の規律との関係も踏まえて、利益相反の規律という近時の見解を裏付け、また、有利発行にはならない発行価格となる場合についても慎重な手続を経させるという機能があることを明らかにした点に意義がある。また、発行プロセスの開示について、これまで金商法が担ってきたが、会社法の観点から規律を置く必要があることを明らかにした点は今後の規制にとって意義がある。
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Report
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Research Products
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[Book] 数字でわかる会社法〔第2版〕2021
Author(s)
田中亘（編著）,飯田秀総,久保田安彦,小出篤,後藤元,白井正和,松中学,森田果
Total Pages
324
Publisher
有斐閣
ISBN
9784641138582
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